Tag: Picard

Picard 1.3.2 is now available on the Picard download page. This again is only a small maintenance release which mainly updates the OS X build to fix crashes some users experienced with Picard 1.3.1. Here is the complete list of fixes:

Bug

[PICARD-681] Fixed tags from filename dialog not opening on new installations

Version 1.3 of Picard has been released today, with some notable features and bug fixes.

This release has few visible changes, but overall performance and stability were much improved. A lot of minor annoying issues were fixed. Cover art code was reworked, and notably one can now enable fallback on release group cover art if no cover art exists for a specific release.

Logging was improved, user can now enable debug mode from About →View Error/Debug Log, it may help to see what is going on if needed, passwords and sensible information were hidden from the log, so user can now safely post his log to get help.

To report any issue concerning this release, please use our bug tracker. As usual you can also get help on forum or on IRC (freenode, #musicbrainz).

Be aware that downgrading from 1.3 to 1.2 may lead to configuration compatibility issues, better save your configuration before installing 1.3 if you intent to go back to 1.2.

Among changes since 1.2:

The “About” window now displays the versions of libraries used by Picard

Picard now correctly handles matching of MP3 files saved in ID3v2.3 tags (which is the version that Microsoft Windows and iTunes both use).
Note: You may need to re-save your tags once to get them to match in future.

A sort tags plugin is now provided as tag data is no longer displayed sorted by default.

A new tag, musicbrainz_releasetrackid, containing the MusicBrainz Track MBID introduced in the May 2013 schema change release, is now written to files.

A new advanced option is available to permanently set the starting directory for the file browser and “Add files/folder” buttons.

Requests to Musicbrainz against your own account e.g. for collections are now handled through SSL (PICARD-337)

Refresh of Albums using Ctrl-R and selection of Other Releases are now more responsive during batch lookups.

Main window is now emitting a “selection_updated” signal, plugin api version bumps to 1.3.0

Append system information to user-agent string

Compilation tag/variable functionality (for tagging & file naming) has been split into two:
– %compilation% is now aligned with iTunes, and set only for Various Artists type compilations
– %_multiartist% variable now indicates whether this release has tracks by multiple artists
(in order to prepend the artist name to the filename as shown in the default file naming script)

Ignore directories and files while indexing when show_hidden_files option is set to False (PICARD-528)

Add ignore_regex option which allows one to ignore matching paths, can be set in Options → Advanced (PICARD-528)

Added an “artists” multi-value tag to track metadata, based on the one in Jaikoz, which contains the individual artist names from the artist credit. Also useful in scripts (joining phrases like ‘feat:’ are omitted) and plugins.

Add optional `priority` parameter to `register_album_metadata_processor()` and `register_track_metadata_processor()`
Default priority is `PluginPriority.NORMAL`, plugins registered with `PluginPriority.HIGH` will be run first, plugins registered with `PluginPriority.LOW` will run last

Exact release date is not yet known, and features aren’t yet frozen, but the only important change we’ll try to get in before final release is OAuth support (PICARD-305), we still accept minor patches until feature freeze is announced.

Since Picard is now using some translation resources from MusicBrainz project, translators should make sure following resources are up-to-date: